Media Coverage

2016

"Think Before You Appropriate" (interview with Solen Roth) — Redeye Collective, Vancouver Cooperative Radio
June 14, 2016
"SFU Prof Creates Guidebook for Cultural Appropriation" — The Peak
June 13, 2016
"Cultural Appropriation" (interview with George Nicholas) — Bridge Duty (CFRC 101.9)
June 09, 2016
"IP back to the future" — Canadian Lawyer Magazine
June 06, 2016
"‘Indian Giver’ confronting cultural appropriation through artwork" — The Toronto Star
June 04, 2016
"Okanagan Indian Band says Ogopogo children's book 'misappropriates' culture" — CBC News
May 30, 2016
"Cultural appropriation guide aims to help designers, consumers, avoid insensitive choices" — CBC News
May 26, 2016
"SFU's West Coast Origins / SFU's Aboriginal Initiatives"—AQ Magazine
May 16, 2016
"Decolonizing and Decommodifying Archaeology" — SFU Office of the Vice-President, Research
May 04, 2016
"Indigenous heritage in an age of commercialism" — The Source (Vol. 16, Iss. 16)
March 08, 2016

2015

"What I Learned at the Summit: Cultural Appropriation?" — Canadian Babywearing Summit Blog
December 10, 2015
"Home on ancient aboriginal cemetery in B.C. to be demolished" — The Globe and Mail
August 10, 2015
"Irony as Inspiration: From Academic Research to Community Action in Protecting Biocultural Landscape" — Langscape (vol. 4, iss. 1)
July 03, 2015
"Exploring Indigenous research ethics policy and practice" — University of Victoria, Internal Research Newsletter
May 14, 2015
"Declaration on the Safeguarding of Indigenous Ancestral Burial Grounds" — Arch Notes (Ontario Archaeological Society)
April 21, 2015
"Saving Grace" - Focus
April 01, 2015
“Yvonne Vezina, PhD student, invited as panelist for Conference on Indigenous Research Ethics” — U Saskatchewan School of Environment and Sustainability Newsletter
March 30, 2015
"Working Better Together: Indigenous Research Ethics Influence WSP Work" — POLIS Water Sustainability Project Winter 2015 Newsletter
March 17, 2015
"President's Dream Colloquium explores protection of Indigenous cultural heritage" — SFU Office for Aboriginal Peoples News
February 04, 2015
"Research group pens declaration on protecting First Nations cultural sites" - SFU Office for Aboriginal Peoples News
February 04, 2015
"Letter to the Editor: Uncharted territory" - Focus Online
February 04, 2015
"Province to review heritage law after battle over Grace Islet" - Times Colonist
January 16, 2015
"Grace Islet, B.C. First Nations Burial Site, To Be Purchased By Province" - The Huffington Post B.C.
January 15, 2015
"B.C. to buy Grace Islet to protect First Nations burial ground" - The Globe and Mail
January 15, 2015
"B.C. laws create complex issues in honouring the dead and where they rest" — The Globe and Mail
January 11, 2015
"The problems that arise when cemeteries are not cemeteries under the law" - The Globe and Mail
January 09, 2015
"SFU researchers urge governments to respect B.C. First Nations’ sites" — The Vancouver Sun
January 09, 2015
"Preserving First Nations Heritage Sites" (interview with George Nicholas) - CBC Radio The Early Edition
January 08, 2015
"Dozens of researchers call for protection of First Nations burial grounds in B.C." - The Georgia Strait
January 08, 2015
"Protecting First Nations Heritage Sites" (interview with George Nicholas) — CBC Radio All Points West
January 06, 2015

2014

"Ushering in the next era of research excellence" — Petter's Perspective: Notes from the President (SFU)
October 02, 2014
"IPinCH: Protecting indigenous heritage" - SFU Research Matters
September 30, 2014
"Researchers speak up for Grace Islet" - Gulf Islands Driftwood
September 10, 2014
"FNSA hosts inaugural Indigenous Day at SFU" — The Peak Newspaper
September 29, 2014
"Passion for past enthuses students" - SFU News
April 14, 2014
"IPinCH engages the world to protect Indigenous heritage" - Petter's Perspective (SFU President's Blog)
March 28, 2014
"Supporting Indigenous Communities at the Grassroots" - WIPO Magazine
February 26, 2014
"The IPinCH Project" - Canadian Archaeological Association Newsletter 31 (2)
February 12, 2014
"IPinCH Revealed" - The Debitage
February 03, 2014
"IPinCH - Helping Indigenous Partners Drive Research" - SFU Office for Aboriginal Peoples News
January 21, 2014

2013

"Indigenous Issues in Japan" - CJSF Radio, World Community Forum (interview with George Nicholas)
December 19, 2013
"IPinCH Project wins $50,000 Partnership Award" - The Midden
December 18, 2013
"Intellectual Property in Cultural Heritage Project Receives Award, Indigenous Communities Drive Research" - Cultural Survival
December 11, 2013
"Essay on the CBC/Stone Bowl Auction Controversy" - Northwest Coast Archaeology Blog
November 04, 2013
"Indigenous Project a New Approach to Cultural Heritage" - In Daily: Adelaide Independent News
October 28, 2013
"SSHRC Partnership Award worth $50,000 awarded to IPinCH Director. Professor Catherine Bell IPinCH co-investigator" - University of Alberta Faculty of Law News
October 18, 2013
"IPinCH and the SSHRC Partnership Award" - CFAX 1070 (interview with George Nicholas and Kelly Bannister)
October 16, 2013
"Cultural and Intellectual Property, Indigenous Rights and Archaeology" - The Debitage
September 01, 2013
"Indiana Jones and the Dungeon of Lost Data" — the Whitehouse Champions of Change Blog
June 20, 2013
"Aboriginal Commodification" - The Peak Newspaper Peakcast (interview with George Nicholas, Brian Egan and Kristen Dobbin)
May 17, 2013
"Symposium Discussed Commodification of Native Culture" — The Peak Newspaper
May 13, 2013
"Intellectual Property Rights & the IPinCH Project" - CJSF Radio, Ideas and Issues (interview with George Nicholas)
April 17, 2013

2011

"Memory & Inuvialuit Elders" — Tusaayaksat (Fall 2011: 8-10)
January 11, 2011

2010

"Inuvialuit Artifacts" - CBC Northwind
March 18, 2010
"Signs of Respect" — Heather Pringle’s Time Machine (guest blog by George Nicholas)
March 11, 2010
"An Inuvialuit Journey to the Smithsonian" - Up Here (in-flight magazine)
March 01, 2010
"Inuvialuit Encounter: Confronting the Past for the Future" — Smithsonian Institution Arctic Studies Center Newsletter (No. 17: 30-32)
March 01, 2010
"Ideas: Intellectual Property" - Radio New Zealand (interview with Deidre Brown)
February 28, 2010

2009

"Inuvialuit Examine Smithsonian Artifacts" — CBC.ca
November 23, 2009
"Intellectual Property Rights - TIG Notes" — Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter
February 01, 2009
"Inuvialuit elders, youth to view rare artifacts at Smithsonian" - CBC.ca
May 19, 2009

2008

"TIG for Intellectual Property Rights" — Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter
May 01, 2008
"Indiana Jones is No Model of the Modern Archeologist" — Vancouver Sun
June 04, 2008
"Project Seeks to Answer Issues of Cultural Heritage" – University Affairs
September 08, 2008
"Colonialism and the Archaeological Wild Man/ Canadian anthropologists react to Indiana Jones" — Zero Anthropology
June 05, 2008
"Archeology's dark side" — The Windsor Star
June 04, 2008
"Setting guidelines for digging up the dirt" — The Ottawa Citizen
June 04, 2008
"Indy Jones movies give archeology bad name" — The Edmonton Journal
June 04, 2008
"Study digs deep into archeology's dark history" — Montreal Gazette
June 04, 2008
"Digging into the Issues" — Dal News
May 29, 2008
"International committee to focus on cultural heritage property rights" — The Norman Transcript
May 21, 2008
"Who Owns the Past?" — The Gazette (Memorial University)
March 13, 2008
"Who Owns the Past?" — Burnaby Now
March 12, 2008